To:V. A. KARPINSKY

Written:Written February 24, 1915Published:First published in 1929 inLenin Miscellany XI.

      Sent from Berne to Geneva.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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DearComrade,

Iam sending the proofs andnew copy. This issuemustcarry a report on theLondon Conference.

ForGod’s sake doeverythingyou can to speed it up. (If youcannotput it out before our
meeting[2]), thenbe sureto bring theproofsalong
with you (especially the articles on defence of the fatherland).

[[BOX:N.B. The material on Martov is to beheld
			      up.[1]Don’t forget!! i.e., don’t put it in.

]]

Aurevoir!Yours,Lenin

[1]Thearticle “More on Martov” was published in the newspaperSotsial-DemokratNo. 41 on May 1, 1915.—Ed.

[2]Thisrefers to theConference of the R.S.D.L.P.SectionsAbroad, held in Berne from February 27 to March 4, 1915.  Convened
on Lenin’s initiative, it was essentially a general conference of the
Party. The main item on the agenda was the question of the war and the
tasks of the Party, on which Lenin made a report.

Allthe basic resolutions and preambles to them were drafted by
Lenin. They were published in the newspaperSotsial-Demokratand
as addenda to Lenin’s pamphletSocialism and Warpublished in
Russian and German. The resolutions of the Berne Conference were also
published as a leaflet in French, which was distributed among the delegates
of the Zimmerwald Socialist Conference and sent to the Left elements among
the international Social-Democrats. For the Conference resolutions see
present edition, Vol. 21, pp. 158–64.